Over 50? Here's what you're not allowed to do.

Yep! What's the point of getting older if you can't do it disgracefully?

My son told me once to ‘grow old disgracefully’. I have every intention of doing so....

I no longer give damn about what anyone thinks about me/says about me, so I shall just do whatever I please

Well he's a twerp isn't he. Hopefully we are all doing what we want to do my now---I'll just unlace my bustier and settle down for some sex in the afternoon with the light on and the blinds open.

Teetime

Enjoy!!!

Well, I'm going to leave my knickers off when I do my shopping at the Co-op tomorrow. What fun!

Dotty
It would take a lot more than you leaving your knickers off to get a reaction out of any of the staff in our coop!

Perhaps you could wear them as a hat Dotty see if you get a reaction ?

I know somebody who never ever wore knickers.

I am with Sara65 I also do not give a stuff what people think about me etc.

Completely off topic but surely Helena Christiansen is older than 50? She was a few years older than me when I was in my teens and I’m 50 now

Ignore Benjamin - he’s just stirring the pot in order to get the clicks.

I was told once to live long enough to be an embarrassment to your children - I am doing my best honest

Charleygirl.
Tell us about her

I think that is you do everything he says you shouldn’t do you can’t go far wrong!

Ah, bless, what a shock he is going to have in a few more years when he starts galloping through his 40s.

The journalist is a young fogey of 37. As The Times is behind a paywall, I was only able to read the first few lines of an article he wrote two years ago entitled 'Why I Love my Gran'. I wonder if his gran has read today's article; moreover, wouldn't it be great if she was on Gransnet!

Beige Cardigans and sensible shoes all round then? I don't think so!

Surely everyone over 50 (especially females) are sitting around knitting, discussing their arthritis, complaining about "youngsters of today", baffled by something called "the internet" and comparing notes on the best sensible shoes.

Now you have to excuse me I am off to find a site where I can book to go sky-diving!

Sounds like this chap is way behind the times, if you ask me. Should have been born in the last, oops, nineteenth century.

I'm another who does exactly as she likes, doesn't give a stuff what anybody thinks or says about me! My kids disowned me years ago

Someone should remind him that "we are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us."

This was apparently first said in 1878 by William Hepworth Thompson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge at a College Meeting of the Fellowship. This was a time of great reformation at the college, and a Junior Fellow had proposed a revision of the college statutes. Thompson was actually greatly in favour of reform, despite being 68 at the time (That old!!! shock, horror!! Surely he was senile??)

The joy of being fifty is that it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!

Who makes these 'rules' anyway. I'm in my 60's have hair to my waist and still wear short skirts. Things I supposedly shouldn't do after the age of 35! I certainly don't care what the clothes police say I shall do as I please

As the next generation is now approaching 50, I'd better have a word with my DSs.

Who cares (I was thinking of some much more colourful language but have politely refrained) what some puerile irrelevant nonentity thinks? We've all got to this stage of life by a combination of good luck, good genes and sheer guts. Go for it girls, whoever and however you want it to be.